The No. 5-ranked Georgia women’s golf team posted a 16-over 300 in Sunday’s final round of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate at the Long Cove Club, leaving the Bulldogs in seventh place in the elite field at 883.
 
 
Junior Harang Lee was Georgia’s top individual finisher. Lee shot 74 on Sunday and finished sixth overall at 3-over 216.
 
 
The Bulldogs started strong and played their first nine holes at 1-under as a team before struggling on the back side.
 
 
“I’m not sure what happened,” head coach Josh Brewer said. “I know we put a scare in everyone. If you want to look at it, we played 27 dominant holes of golf here and played 27 holes we’ll learn from. All you want is to be in a position to win and we were. We’ve done a good job of closing all year when we’ve been in contention. We’ll learn from this one.”
 
 
Freshman Rinko Mitsunaga posted the Bulldogs’ low score of the day, a 1-over 72 and tied for 13th at 219. UGA also counted a 75 from Bailey Tardy and a 79 from Manuela Carbajo Ré, while dropping Mary Ellen Shuman’s 80. Overall, Tardy tied for 17th at 220, Shuman tied for 62nd at 229 and Carbajo Ré tied for 74th at 232.
 
 
No. 4 Alabama completed its wire-to-wire victory after completing the 54-hole event at 868, four shots better than Virginia. Rounding out the top-10 teams were No. 2 Duke at 878, No. 10 Oklahoma State at 879, North Carolina at 881, No. 3 Arkansas at 882, the Bulldogs at 883, No. 1 Southern Cal and South Carolina both at 887 and No. 21 Tennessee at 888.
 
 
Cheyenne Knight captured individual medalist honors for Alabama as well. She finished at even-par 213, a shot better than four players tying for second.
 
 
Georgia will return to action in two weeks when the Bulldogs compete in the Mountain View Collegiate in Tempe, Ariz.
 
 

Sunday’s Second-Round Results

Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
Long Cove Club
Hilton Head, S.C.
Par 71, 6243 Yards

 
 
Team Leaderboard
 
Alabama 278-298-292=868
Virginia 281-298-296=875
Duke 297-289-290=878
Oklahoma State 292-290-297=879
North Carolina 290-295-296=881
Arkansas 289-296-297=882
Georgia 301-282-300=883
Southern Cal 297-293-297=887
South Carolina 303-291-293=887
Tennessee 295-292-301=888
Vanderbilt 282-300-307=889
Furman 303-302-293=898
Auburn 296-289-316=901
Wake Forest 300-300-303=903
LSU 303-301-308=912
Mississippi State 303-300-309=912
Kentucky 307-300-306=913
 
 
Individual Leaderboard
 
Cheyenne Knight, Alabama 67-74-72=213
Alexandra Farnsworth, Vanderbilt 67-72-75=214
Maddie McCrary, Oklahoma State 71-70-73=214
Lauren Coughlin, Virginia 67-72-75=214
Sandy Choi, Duke 71-70-73=214
Harang Lee, Georgia 73-69-74=216
Elizabeth Szokol, Virginia 69-76-72=217
Katelyn Dambaugh, South Carolina 75-72-70=217
Maria Fassi, Arkansas 71-70-77=218
Haylee Harford, Furman 74-72-72=218
Leslie Cloots, North Carolina 75-76-67=218
Robynn Ree, Southern Cal 72-73-73=218
 
 
Georgia Scores
 
T13. Rinko Mitsunaga, Georgia 76-71-72=219
T17. Bailey Tardy, Georgia 74-71-74=220
T62. Mary Ellen Shuman, Georgia 78-71-80=229
T74. Manuela Carbajo Ré, Georgia 78-75-79=232